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f/ttßk~*mm* ORGAN FOR HOUSTON COUNTY, votiOMEdSkjHwMBER 186 mww.hhj news.com Two sections • 14 pages BELOW THE Fold: County supports grant for Perry airport □ Parents as Teachers website be a helpful resource for child rearing Weekend September 23,2006 The Home Journal’s FRONT PORCH I IN SPORTS ■ Football, and softball, including Westfield’s win over Southland and Northside's victory over Baldwin. Also look for cross country and some of those cute and cuddly pics of your children playing youth football. - See 1B IN BRIEF Black to hold summit, lunch today Gary Black, Republican candi date tor Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, will hold a grass roots summit and lunch at the Roquemore Center, Georgia National Fairgrounds today from 10:30 a.m.-noon. Georgia DOT to hold public forum on plans The Georgia Department of Transportation will conduct a Public Information Open House Oct. 5 in Warner Robins to provide the public an opportunity to view proposed plans for the widening and improvement of Corder Road from State Route 247C/Watson Blvd. to 1,000 feet north of Richard B. Russell Parkway in Houston County. It will be from 5-7 p.m. at Warner Robins Middle School, 425 Mary Lane in Warner Robins. The pur pose of the Open House is to pro vide the public with an opportunity to view the proposed project, ask questions, and comment on the proposal. BIRTHDAYS Sept. 21 ■ Pauline Lewis Sept. 22 ■ Melissa Kaye Evans ■ Mary Weidel Sept. 23 ■ Ashlee Calhoun Sept. 24 ■ Linda Traylor ■ Joe Hill ■ Sarah Hill ■ Belinda Hughes Sept. 25 ■ Linda Shearer E-mail your birthdays to: hhj@evansnewspapers.com or donm@evansnewspapers.com or send them to: 1210 Washington St., Perry 31069: attn: Don Moncrief. You can also call him at 987-1823, Ext. 231. DEARLY DEPARTED ■ Robern Scott Priest, 34 ■ Minnie C. Fauconniere, 94 ■ Doris Annette Spillers Worrell, 39 PERIODICAL 500 8 Us! | ill ll 4 Award-Winning Better Newspaper Contest XSSfSx tlllllillMtlllllllllilllillllllllllllllllllllllllll COOI * GEORGIA NEWSPAPER PROJECT Main Library UNIV OF GEORGIA ATHENS GA 30602-0002 3-DIGIT 306 September 23, 2006 Swing Houston County Since 1870 Who cut the cheese ls It's not a joke - new form ot heroin..ie streets By RATLIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Dallas (Texas) police are seeing a new drug on the streets and in the schools directed at young people called “cheese.” The new drug mixture is a “starter form” of hero in, containing Tylenol PM and up to 8 percent heroin. Due to chemical interfer ence caused by acetamino phen and diphenhydramine hydrochloride, forensic analysis can be challenging, according to police. “Cheese” appears to be a favorite of Hispanic juve niles, both male and female. With the growing Hispanic community in Houston County and Warner Robins, police are concerned, but according to Lt. Lance Watson of the Warner Robins Police Department Narcotics dfamr »8t f* Wr* W a .*/ jt tr libi JIFtIHt ! - waH . m .a? JHI appk • r $ -dBL.” 8 UP igllpppjL LM? Jilt »#fjg ***' ‘ r '“' i mkJM N . .>- _3 mam . j?: M W. 31 m. — ■ ■ I I■■ n ■———p 9 i 11 ,■ ' —————— ■ ENI/Gary Harmon Perry’s Casey Hayward rushes for plus yardage in the Panthers’ game against Jackson Friday in Perry. See 1B for more. County supports grant for local airport By RAY LIGHTNER Journal Staff Writer Some intergovernmental cooperation will help the Bk \ J* ■' y jPJBH ■jßS|p ENI/Gary Harmon Mike Mullins of Centerville points out the instrument landing system on his plane that will guide the planes in under cloud cover when the instruments are installed on the runway at the Perry Airport. » •) Metro Creative Investigation Unit, have not seen it yet. “It may come up,” Watson said. “With the big ice deal in metro Atlanta recently, we feel the effects down ‘l’m going to Jackson Airport Authority get about $2.6 million for an instru ment landing system with out spending any additional e. The supply may dry up .nd people are willing to try • something new.” Users as young as 13 are known to be experiment ing with this drug, accord ing to Narconon, a drug addiction recovery 6rgani zation similar to Alcoholics Anonymous. Typically described as a light tan colored pow der with granules varying See CHEESE, page %A "It may come up ... The supply may dry up and people are willing to try something new." - Warner Robins police Lt. Lance Watson money. The county had already planned to spend $720,000 from the 2006 Special Planners seek input on development plons “Unless certain regulatory con trols are set in place, the commu nity of Kathleen will be absorbed in the abyss of urban growth and lose its distinct identity.” - Joint Comprehensive Plan By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer If you missed the first presentation of Houston County’s Joint Comprehensive plans, there’ll be another one Thursday in Centerville. The color-coded maps and written plans, referred to as a “Community Agenda,” and drafted by a team of volun teer citizens with assistance from professional planners and the Middle Georgia Regional Development, are now available for citizen review and comment. Here are some highlights from the Houston County Agenda. Further information on the county plan and details from the agendas for Perry, Warner Robins and Centerville will follow in future issues. See PLANS, page fA Purpose Local Option Sales Tax to straighten out the road going to the Perry airport, which also makes room for the instrument landing system. By working with Peach County, Houston County and Perry qualify for a 75/25 cost share grant from the Air Georgia Financial Assistance Initiative in Rural Georgia. The grant is designed to help expand rural govern ment airports. Houston and Perry do not qualify alone, not being considered rural, but by working with Peach County, a former partner inn the airport which also lies partially in that county, the Perry-Houston County Airport now qualifies for the state grant. Peach County and the city of Perry also formalized their participation in the grant application, which the Middle Georgia Regional Development Center will help write. See GRANT, page lA . tv frAMiiv Nmsrnm A ‘shear’ delight? PY Council may dictate landscaping By CHARLOTTE PERKINS Journal Staff Writer Planning to build in Perry? Get out your tape measures and your botanical guides. The Perry City Council is considering amendments to its land development ordi nance aimed at protecting property values through beautification, buffers and tree-planting in residential, business, institutional and industrial areas. The amendments have been submitted by the Perry Planning Commission and will be voted on at a later meeting. Key points in the regula tions would be the require ment that trees be planted and maintained, and that 75 percent of the required trees be larger trees, reaching at least 40 feet in height at maturity. Street trees are to “enliv en streetseapes by lending natural features with built features,” and a minimum of one tree per 35 linear feet of frontage shall be planted. A recommended list of trees will be made available. See SHEAR, page $A Website offers parental help By KRISTY WARREN Journal Staff Writer Most parents will admit to a certain level of uncer tainty when it comes to child jh> Parents as Teachers \ |j / nTtnyrul center *** ** rearing. From skin care to school preparedness, there are helpful resources avail able. Traci Williams, Director of Perry Family Learning Center, encourages par ents and leaders to look to the Parents as Teachers website for answers to See WEBSITE, page *4